Women segregated at University of London

Apparently at some lectures and public debates at some London University Colleges such as UCL, women are being segregated - they have to sit separately from men.
 I went to medical school at London University and if any of us female students had come across situations where we were being segregated, there would have been riots.
 It was the time of the anti apartheid movement and there were riots in London against the segregation of black people from white in South Africa.
To think that any form of segregation could now be occurring in this country,  in Britain, is horrifying.
It is being done to pander to the religious beliefs of Muslim fundamentalists. Their men claim that pure Muslim women do not want to be sullied by sitting next to men.
So they are given separate seating at the back of the hall.
Instead of asking questions as the men do, directly, the women have to write their question down on a piece of paper.
To my mind this is treating women as second class citizens
It would seem that this is also happening in other British Colleges.
I find this so awful that I struggle to find words.
British women have fought hard for female equality, from the suffragette movement onwards. We cannot allow our hard one battles to be undone for the sake of anyone.